From now on, deploying a Rails application may very well be as simple as ‘Upload’. Passenger automatically detects the presence of a Ruby on Rails application and launches it for you in the background, leaving it running for the subsequent requests. [..] All you do is enable the Ruby on Rails Passenger (mod_rails) option for any existing or new web domain in the DreamHost web control panel. When you then point that domain’s web directory to the public directory of an existing Ruby on Rails application it will work automatically.

Capistrano 2.3 is primarily significant in that it switches to the new Net::SSH v2 library, which is faster and slimmer than the older Net::SSH v1 library. It also pulls in Net::SFTP v2, and the new Net::SSH::Gateway and Net::SCP libraries.